Authorities and sources say that a 7-year-old girl was hit by what looked like a stray bullet during a shooting on a Harlem corner on Monday during the day.
Police and sources say the girl was walking with her family at the corner of West 145th Street and Bradhurst Avenue around 2:50 p.m. when she was hit in the stomach by a bullet.
Sources say that the gunfire seemed to have come from two young guys on the next corner.
The girl was rushed to Harlem Hospital in a police cruiser, but she didn’t look like the target. She was described as being in stable condition.
A neighbor said the ambulance “took forever” to get there, so the police took the child to the hospital while the girl’s crying uncle watched the police car speed off.
The man had been living in the area for 20 years. He was leaving the New York Sports Club next door when he heard gunshots and stopped moving.
He told The Post that when he noticed what had happened, he turned around and saw the little girl on the ground. He ran over to comfort her crying family member.
She looked like she was with her parents and sister, and he said she was “just a little girl.”
According to a video taken by an onlooker, the upset man, who the neighbor thought was the father of the child, had to be helped up as he cried out, “We were just walking.”
After making the man feel better, the friend said that the seriousness of the situation made him cry.
Two male teenagers, ages 17 and 19, were arrested for having a gun. Sources say that police are still deciding if there is enough evidence to charge them with the shooting.
At first, there was no information on why the shooting happened.
